Nicholas (Nick) Metheny, PhD, MPH, RN is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University and holds affiliate positions at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Metheny’s research takes a social-ecological approach to preventing and mitigating the harms of intimate partner violence (IPV) in heterosexual women and LGBTQ+ communities in the United States and South Africa. 

Using his training in nursing science, health policy, and public health, Dr. Metheny conducts  interdisciplinary, community-engaged research using advanced quantitative methods with the goal of creating interventions to prevent and mitigate intimate partner violence. He is particularly interested in the role of relationship violence mitigation in HIV-related outcomes among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men as well as post-sexual violence nursing care in low-resource settings. His research has been funded by US, Canadian, and UK government agencies, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the UK’s National Institute of Health Research, and US National Institutes of Health via the Center for AIDS Research Adelante program.

Dr. Metheny holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health and Hispanic Studies from The College of William and Mary (2009), a Master of Public Health in Global Health Policy from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University (2011), a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (2014), and a PhD in Nursing Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2019). He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Population Health at the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital/University of Toronto (2020). 

Dusing, G. J., Essue, B., O'Campo, P., & Metheny, N. (2025) Long-term healthcare utilization and cost associated with intimate partner violence: A cohort study. Health Policy. In press.

Cagney, J., Spencer, C., Flor, L., Herbert, M., Khalil, M., O’Connell, E., Metheny, N., Chandan, J., & Gakidou, E. (2025) "Prevalence of sexual violence against children and age at first exposure: a global analysis by location, age and sex (1990-2023). The Lancet. In press.

Metheny, N., Dusing, G., Ndagurwa, P. Mkhize, S. (2025). Disparities in Quality of Life by Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation: an Intersectional Analysis of Population-Representative Data in Gauteng, South Africa. Social Science and Medicine. 366, 117651

Metheny, N. Scott, D., Apro, A., Falcon, A., Bojorquez, F., de Santis, J. (2024). Relationship-focused Intervention Delivery Preferences for Latinx Sexual Minority Men: A Qualitative Description Study. Journal of Family Violence. 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s10896-024-00758-0

Metheny, N., Tran, N., Scott, D., Lubensky, M., Lunn, M., Obedin-Maliver, J., Flentje, A. (2024) Intimate partner violence is related to future alcohol use among a nationwide sample of LGBTQIA+ people: results from The PRIDE Study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 26(111342). Doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111342.

Spencer, C., Herbert, M., Khalil, M. Patwardhan, V. Twalibu, A., Stein, C., Cagney, J.…. Chandan, J+; Metheny, N.+, Gakidou, E+. The health effects of intimate partner violence and childhood sexual abuse: a Burden of Proof study (2023). Nature Medicine. 29(3243–3258). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02629-5

2022
“People’s Choice Award” for research presented at the 24th meeting of the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International, Durham, NC, USA

2022
Lancet Public Health “Editors’ Pick” for the publication Housing interventions for women experiencing intimate partner violence: a systematic review

2022
Fellow, Jewish National Fund Faculty Fellowship in Israel Program

2017-2019
Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar, Cohort V, Jonas Philanthropies 

2018
Sigma, the Honor Society of Nursing, selection as a Rising Star of Research and Scholarship

2018
New Investigator Award, University of Michigan School of Nursing 

2017
Biennial Meeting of the World Association for Sexual Health, Top 10 Abstract Award